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The rector of the University of Douala, Professor Francois-Xavier Etoa, at the 39th session of the university council held on August 9, returned to the problems facing the institution.

At the academic level, the Disciplinary Board ruled on the case of some teachers with two employers at a time.

Disciplinary measures were taken, resulting in the termination of certain contracts. In terms of operation, the University of Douala has initiated negotiations with the National Social Insurance Fund (CNPS), which resulted in a moratorium for the settlement of the social debt.

Cameroon – University of Douala: Teachers Dismissed For Indiscipline

A capacity-building seminar was organized for university staff responsible for the collection and remittance of social rights.

Prof. François-Xavier Etoa also mentioned the organization of the festival of arts and culture, university games and many other issues. As regards the sites belonging to the unversity, in particular at Pk17 and Mankoulang (in the Moungo division), and arousing the appetites of local residents, the Board of Directors, chaired by its President, Pr Ngando Mpondo, prescribes to the administration of the university to provide, in the budget 2018, an endowment for the securing of these spaces.

The director of the film “Quartier Mozart” was the guest of the program “La Grande interview” on August 15th on Canal 2 international.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo is like many other Cameroonians concerned about the anglophone crisis that erupted at the end of last year. Invited on 15 August 2017 of the Canal 2 International La Grande Interview, the filmmaker argued that there is indeed an English-speaking problem. “I understood that there was someone who said,” We solved this and that problem. “If the problems were solved, it means there were problems and they had reasons for raising them, and that in resolving them, deep in the bottom it was acknowledged that there was something being done wrongly. I think that what was missing, what is missing, is first, when we are wrong, we have to apologize, “he reacted to a question from our colleague Jean-Bruno Tagne.

He explained his thinking by stating that because the administration is no longer colonial, it is serving a people. This people are angry according to him. He thinks that contrary to what Laurent Esso said in Brussels “our whole history is between 1916 and 2017“. “We are caught up with shortcuts,” he said.

Bekolo, who denounced French arrogance, said that Francophone Cameroonians were victims of French colonization. “In our idea of the State, we have been masters. We speak of 400,000 deaths in the war of national liberation. And finally, one forgets that this arrogance has rubbed off on us. When we think of administration, we think of the administration of the one who crushed us. But anglophones have not experienced this. When we deal with them we carry this kind of colonization with its arrogance, with its violence! This is where we should, and I come back to that idea, excuse ourselves, “he says, not without prescribing the rejection of this” model. ” He believes that the images of the embassy in Ottawa that had secessionists show that the country is divided, is like a country in civil war.

Popular Cameroonian film director, Jean-Pierre Bekolo thinks Francophnes need to apology to Anglophones. He made the comment during his appearance on Canal 2 international on August 15.

“I understood that there was someone who said, We solved this and that problem. If the problems were solved, it means there were problems and they had reasons for raising them, and that in resolving them, deep in the bottom it was acknowledged that there was something being done wrongly. I think that what was missing, what is missing, is first, when we are wrong, we have to apologize, “ the film director said reacting to a question from Jean-Bruno Tagne, on the ongoing Anglophone crisis.

Cameroon is a bilingual country; the constitution gives equal status to both English and French. But the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions are seething over their alleged marginalisation; accusing the government of giving preferential treatment to Cameroon’s eight other administrative regions.

The discontent, known in Yaoundé as the “anglophone problem”, is fanned by the perceived lack of investment by the government; a lack of political advancement for anglophones; and the general difficulty faced in the job market by those for whom French is not their first language.

Public unrest began in October 2016. It started as a strike by lawyers and then teachers over the “francophonisation” of the regions’ legal and education systems. It quickly coalesced into a general outcry over poor governance, “cultural genocide”, and the heavy-handed crackdown by the authorities.

After several deliberations between South Africa Authority and its Zimbabwe counterpart, South Africa government has granted diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe, allowing her to return to Harare and avoid prosecution for the alleged assault of a 20-year-old model, a security source said on Friday.

The source also told Reuters that Mugabe, 52, had failed to appear in a Johannesburg magistrate’s court on Tuesday under an agreement struck with police because of fears she might be attacked.